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Tapping maple trees to make syrup

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Has anybody here had any experience with this? It was just recently brought to my attention and I wanted to try it as it seems like a very cheap, fun, and renewable way to get some great maple syrup during the spring.

I don't have any sugar maples near me I don't think but my neighbor has two HUGE maples in his backyard and we think they are Bigleaf Maples, which I've now read are indigenous to my area. So the sugar content is lower and more sap will be needed to produce some syrup, but I'm not too worried about that.

Any tips or tricks I should know? I found some spires to tap the tree on Amazon and a nice setup that has tubes going into a food grade bucket. My neighbor also has a giant fire pit in his backyard so we were gonna use a nice old chain link gate over it with a big pan to do the initial boil.

Hoping I can yield something. Seems like a fun project to do with my daughter and my neighbors kids. Plus, I'm a bit of a Doomsday Prepper (not AT ALL like the show) so these kind of outdoor self sustaining things always interest me.

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Where the fug is the Canadian? Don't they teach this in school there?

 

Also I think you have more knowledge than 99% of the Huddle. I have found a cool magazine article a couple years ago in Urban Farmer about it,

 

that's them eastern Canadians tapping them trees...out west we tap mooses.

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I saw an episode of dirty jobs on the subject.

Amazing how much sap it took to reduce down I to syrup

 

We made our own tomato sauce last year from our garden's tomato plants ...I was shocked when I saw how many maters it took to make 1 jar of sauce. 

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